Chilean War on Drugs

The Chilean War on Drugs was an effort by Augusto Pinochet's Chilean dictatorship to eradicate the rising drug trade in its country, often consisting of arrests and subsequent summary executions. The Chilean Army shut down several drug operations and arrested the drug dealers before lining them up and executing them by firing squad, often burying them in mass graves to hide their atrocities. Some people would survive these executions, such as Mateo Moreno, who became known as "the Cockroach" for surviving the mass execution of his colleagues.